Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Goleman were looking for a textbook example of emotionally intelligent leadership, he couldn't do better than former Mayor Rudy Giuliani of New York City after Sept. 11. As important as what Giuliani said was how he said it. "When people were feeling threatened and anxious, he did everything he could to make you feel that someone was actually in control," Goleman told TIME. "He was in touch with his feelings--and our feelings...
Often, they hear about the opportunity to proctor exams through retiree groups or by word of mouth and are anxious to relive the “experience of going into a classroom,” says Field Manager of Exams and Registrar Services Mike Fournier. In many cases, Fournier explains, they just enjoy being around students. He recalls a proctor who was overjoyed to see a student she one of her former high school students, who had been in her sophomore history class. But sometimes the age of the retirees-turned-proctors can make for a precarious situation, he says...
...miss 10% to 15% of breast cancers. Mammograms are also associated with a high rate of false positives--particularly among younger women. In the U.S. only 2% to 11% of all "abnormalities" found in a routine screening actually turn out to be cancer. That translates into a lot of anxious women who are called back for another mammogram or advised to undergo either a needle aspiration or a biopsy. These can lead to problems such as scarring, infections and the complications of unnecessary surgery...
...Despite the tough talk, the Bush administration is going out of its way reassure anxious allies that diplomacy and economic and political pressure remain its preferred methods of dealing even with those now dubbed "evil." The allies are concerned the noisier atmospherics could harden attitudes in those troublesome capitals, and that rhetoric may have a tendency to create its own momentum...
...Seoul, for example, U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Thomas Hubbard rushed to assure his anxious hosts that the U.S. remains "eager to have pragmatic and straightforward talks with North Korea." He told South Koreans that the North had been cited not because of any terrorist connections, but out of concern over its weapons of mass destruction. But Washington and Seoul remain divided over how to deal with the Stalinist regime in the North. South Korean officials said Thursday that the U.S. and Seoul would "offer a series of incentives to the North in order to bring it to the negotiating...